Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.
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Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."
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The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
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When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.
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A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.
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If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
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'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.
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If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
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Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
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Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
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Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
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If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper
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God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.
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It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.
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It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
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But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.